Word: mankind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general agreement also that sex union between husbands and wives as an expression of mutual affection, without relation to procreation, is right. This is recognized by the Scriptures, by all branches of the Christian Church, by social and medical science, and by the good sense and idealism of mankind...
...Rinehart does not tell all she knows. She never has. It seems to be on her conscience. She says: "I had at my fingertips a wealth of material which I would not use. I knew better than the average the weaknesses of mankind, the errors; I had seen human relations at their most naked, human emotions when the bars were down and the soul peered out, heroic, cowardly or defiant. Yet I could not write of these things. I did not want to recall them. To this moment realism is easy for me, much easier than other writing. ... I turned...
...Even as the senate of ancient Rome, so those of other senates were elected by the people and by them authorized to legislate for the welfare of mankind, and that is what you do when you legislate for your own people. So therefore I may say sincerely that I am very glad to be here...
...write about human beings from any non-human viewpoint is to rob human affairs rather terribly of their importance and security. Important and terrible enough from mankind's viewpoint, the overturning of the social order in Russia becomes truly horrible when considered as the dogs of Russia may have viewed it. That is what Author Nazhivin does, with tremendous effects of comedy and insane tragedy. He sharpens his point by endowing the dog-characters with the traits of the human animal as variously found in Russia. Also he uses this psychological trick in reverse, and the book...
...speaking about education after college President Lowell stated, "No man's education ends with college. He should keep on striving to better himself, not so much for his own good as for the good of all. We should be worthwhile not alone to ourselves, but to all mankind," he said. "And that is the object of college, tutors, Houses, and all--to help a man to become a worthwhile individual in the world. All the college facilities can do is to help a man gain this end; his future lies in his own hands...